17/08/24 morning (temple) – Tirobhava-tithi of Srila Rupa Gosvamipada (English translation) | Vrindavana, India | Srila BV Vana Maharaja
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Meaning of samadhi: the mind completely absorbed and fixed in serving its Worshipful Deity.
The transcendental service of Srila Rupa Manjari.
Srila Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami’s prayer to Rupa Manjari.
Srila Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami is directly the sakhi of Srimati Radhika in the form of Rati Manjari.
Proper devotional service is possible only in samadhi.
At Radha Damodara Mandir, Srila Rupa Gosvami is teaching us how to do spiritual practice by chanting a fixed number of rounds of japa and at the same time be internally absorbed in the transcendental moods.
Our lives will be successful if we can attain a particle, a ray of this bhava of Srila Rupa Gosvamipada in our hearts.
Srila Rupa Gosvami was very dear to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu.
Many may be raganuga-bhaktas, but few are rupanuga-bhaktas.
